Can't select project when doing ng update

[rogerfar]

🐞 Bug report

Command (mark with an x)

- [ ] new
- [ ] build
- [ ] serve
- [ ] test
- [ ] e2e
- [ ] generate
- [ ] add
- [x] update
- [ ] lint
- [ ] xi18n
- [ ] run
- [ ] config
- [ ] help
- [ ] version
- [ ] doc

Description

When running ng update --all --force is will only update the package.json in the root of the Angular project, but will skip your projects in the projects folder. There is no way to specify the project on the command line. Having a few larges libraries it's convenient to update projects too.

[filipesilva]

We usually go through all projects and update them, but I think that in the specific case of libraries we don't have any migration for 9 right now. @clydin @alan-agius4 can you confirm?

[alan-agius4]

Migrations run against all projects in a workspace. They will run on libraries and applications, if the migration schematic is designed to do so. For version 8 we don't have any migration that effects a library.

However from the request above, I am assuming that the user (@farlock85) is using some sort of workspace concept maybe with yarn. Ie having multiple package.json in various projects. At the moment, this is not supported by the CLI and we only update dependencies in the root package.json.

[rogerfar]

@alan-agius4 It's been a while I worked with libraries (hence the upgrade) so not sure if I'm doing anything special.

I found this random stackblitz: https://stackblitz.com/github/tobi-or-not-tobi/lipstick-css?file=package.json

If I download it and run ng update --all --force it will update the main package.json correctly, but leaves the projects\sample-components\package.json untouched.

[alan-agius4]

@rogerfar, what do you expect to be changed in the library package.json? The peerDependencies?

[kishore5a8]

@alan-agius4 , Even I am facing the same issue. My library has peer dependencies. Want to know whether ng update(angular 7 to 8) updates any library related files or do we need to manually update library files?

[alan-agius4]

@kishore5a8, libraries projects will also be updated when running ng update.